Pandemic

First up on the podcast this week,Canadian Musician Editor-in-Chief Mike Raine welcomes back artist manager Steve Kenny (4:40). Steve is the co-founder of Traverse Music Management and he keeps an honest and insightful blog for indie musicians called The Ascender (www.traversemusicmanagement.ca/theascender). Mike and Steve chat about how managers themselves have…

The written word will flourish in the post-pandemic workplace THE PANDEMIC has given a big shove to all forms of digital communication. Video-conferencing platforms have become verbs. Venture capitalists make their bets after watching virtual pitches. Products like Loom and mmhmm help workers send pre-recorded video messages to their colleagues.…

In 1909, the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep published a book called “The Rites of Passage.” In it, he explored the rituals that cultures use to transition people from one stage of life to the next. Birth, puberty, graduation, religious initiation, marriage, pregnancy, promotions, the seasons—we’re always on the threshold…

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The government's pandemic task force will not hesitate to place Metro Manila under a stricter Alert Level 4 if hospitalization rate and daily infections continue to escalate, Malacañang said on Monday. The National Capital Region is under Alert Level 3 until January 15. "We will not hesitate to do Alert…

Cala Homes topped its pre-pandemic performance in 2021 and is on course to turn over £1.8bn a year by 2026, the company has claimed. Unaudited results for the year to 31 December 2021 showed the company, which is owned by Legal & General, made a pre-tax profit of around £130m…

Updated 1 hour ago · Published on 9 Jan 2022 7:20PM · A teenager receives a jab of Covid-19 vaccine at a drive-through vaccination facility at the Zwartkops Raceway in Pretoria, South Africa. Africa has recorded more than 10 million Covid-19 cases, according to figures from the African Union’s health…

As the COVID-19 pandemic hampers on, crypto-criminals have increasingly exploited the situation by using phishing campaigns and other forms of crypto-related schemes to attack unsuspecting victims. The level of cryptocurrency-related crime increased to an all-time high in 2021, but the statistic doesn’t tell the whole story, according to Chainalysis. The…

Author of the article: Scott Laurie Dan Guiry, manager of Blackjack BBQ on Gerrard St. E., is seen here on the restaurant's patio on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Photo by Jack Boland /Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network Their first lockdown comedy night happened Thursday on their new heated patio. It’s something novel…

In the final days of 2021 the South African government eased its COVID regulations. On December 30th the government scrapped a curfew that had been in place since March 2020. It also initially announced an easing around quarantines and contact tracing but subsequently reversed these plans. Nevertheless, its approach sets…